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(No Model.) I Y D. LUBIN.

REVERSIBLE SHIRT.

No. 258,860. Patented' Mey 30, 1882,.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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REVERSIBLE SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,860, dated May '30,1882.

Application filed February 1, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID LUBIN, ofSacramento City, in the county of Sacramento, and in the State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inReversible Shirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,making a part of this specification.

This invention relates to shirts of wool or other material which open infront; and the nature of my invention consists in the combination, withshirts of the above kind, of a chest and back protector, which can alsobe opened infront, as will be understood from the following description.

.In the annexed drawings, Figure] is a front view of my improved shirt,showing the bosom unbuttoned and turned back to expose the bosom part ofthe combined chest and back protector. Fig. 2 is aview of the combinedchest and back protector detached from the shirt. the shirt.

The following descriptionof my invention, when taken in connection withthe annexed drawings, will enable others skilled in the art to fullyunderstand it.

A designates the body of the shirt, BB the sleeves, and C the bosom,which parts may be constructed in the usual well-known manner.

It will be observed the shirt is of the kind wherein the bosom C isunited permanently on one side to the body A, and is provided withbutton and hole fastenin gs for attaching it to the opposite side of thecenter and at the bottom to the body, as is shown in Fig. 1.

Shirts of this kind are generally worn by laborers, and are usually madeof woolen goods, so that they are made to serve both as the under andouter shirt. In consequence of having the shield-bosom open on one side,the breast of the wearer is very much exposed to currents of cold air,which enter through the openings necessarily left between the buttonsFig..3 is a horizontal section through V or otherfastenings. To preventthis entrance of cold air I have invented the combined breast and backprotector. (Represented clearly by Fig. 2.) This is preferably made of asingle piece of any suitable fabric, and consists of a back portion, D,a front portion, E, shoulder portions F F, formed substantially asshown, a neck-hole, Gr, and a flap or bosom portion, H, which latter isopen on one side only and provided with suitable fastenings, a. Thisprotector is stitched to theback, front, and the shoulder parts of theshirt,inside thereof, the opening of the ap H being always arranged onthat side of the bosom of the shirt which is opposite to the opening ofthe tlap or bosom G, as shown in Fig. l.

It will thus be seen that the two openingsy of the bosom -daps do notcome together. Hence the breast is well protected from currents of air.

By making my combined breast andl back protector lof one piece of goodsI have no seams at the shoulder portions F F. Consequently theseportions will re-enforce and strengthen the seams at the shoulders oftheshirt-body A.

If desired, I may make the frontand back portions of the protector oftwo thicknesses, and pad them, thus affording still greater protectionto the body of the wearer. p

In lcarrying out my'invention I shall manufacture some shirts so thatthey are reversible-that is to say,`the parts of the shirt are sewedtogether by reversible seams, which present the same appearance on bothsides of the shirt. Such shirts, while they will be less expensive thantwoy shirts, will practically serve the purpose of two shirts,`for whenone side is soiled the other may be exposed to view.

The reversible shirts may be made of one color, or with one design onone side and a different color or design on the opposite side. The apsOand H will be provided with suitable means for fastening their freeedges to either side of their respective parts.

v I am aware that shirts have been made with two lapping bosom-flaps. Iam also aware that chest-protectors have been made with a singledouble-ply ap and a double-ply back. In testimony whereof I affix mysignature, in These features I do not broadly claim. presence of twoWitnesses, this 1st day of Feb- 1o Having described my invention, Iclaimruary, 1882. The combination, with a shirt having a bo- DAVID LUBIN5 som-flap open on onc side only, of a breast and back protector havinga ap opening opposite Witnesses: to the said bosom-Hap, substantially asand for C. M. ALEXANDER, the purposes described.

H. AUBREY TOULMIN.

